From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V3 #161 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Wednesday, June 11 2003 Volume 03 : Number 161 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] Clueless Xena Fan With Some DVD Questions [Sojourn] Re: [chakram-refugees] RE: Braging [cr ] [chakram-refugees] "Soulmates" Revisited [Xwpacolyte@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 07:52:46 +0100 From: Sojourner Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Clueless Xena Fan With Some DVD Questions At 19:45 09/06/2003 -0400, Cousin Liz wrote: >I finally broke down today, stopped at Best Buy's and picked >up Xena Season One on DVD for my birthday. Mind you, I haven't >gotten around to buying a DVD player yet, but I do have a brand >new, not yet used, DVD/CD/CDR drive in my computer. > >On to the questions: > >-Can I play these DVD's on my computer? Yes >-When I get a DVD player, will I then be able to play the DVD's > on both the player and on my computer? Yes >-Are there any features on the DVD's that only work with a player > or a computer? Not that I've seen - but my remote control on my ultra-cheapy (but multi-region) DVD player had some features like a zoom which I have not seen on my PC. >-Am I right that I need to install the CyberLink POwerDVD XP 4.0 > software that came with the DVD/CD/CDR drive before I can view > the Xena DVD's? The other CD that came with the drive is a Roxio > CD that appears to be for burning CD's. Did you install software with the new DVD drive - or did it come with the PC? If the latter, just throw it in! >Lastly, if anyone can think of anything a newbie needs to know about >DVD's that I don't even know enough to ask about, please feel free >to add to the discussion. Wouldn't go back to the tapes again! Sojourner ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:08:56 +1200 From: cr Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] RE: Braging On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 1:13 am, Ribaud, Lynn wrote: (random reckless snippage) > > What I *do* recall was that this upturned ship full of air > > stabilised at a particular depth. Now this is quite wrong > > (and I say that with some confidence even though I know there > > are those on this list who can and probably will contradict me > > if I'm in error here). > > Hey! I resemble that comment... Thought ya might ;) > > Such a ship is *not* stable, it will tend to either rise faster > > and faster (as the pressure decreases and the air giving it > > buoyancy expands) or sink faster (as the air is compressed). > > This is quite correct. Also, a ship has ballast, especially a > sailing ship. In general, it is composed of rocks in the bottom of the > ship. Where did it go? Makes a lot of difference to the issue. Oops. Out through the decks, presumably, if they werent strong and well-fastened. > The problem, for me, is that this is only one of several errors. > Most were gratuitous: > > The ship is headed is a dangerous direction, so Xena decides to > steer it away. Two problems here: the vessel isn't making way (it isn't > moving with respect to the water), so it cannot be steered passively; and > Xena uses a rudder -- invented about two thousand years later (there is a > reason one side of a ship is called 'starboard', after all). Hmmm... and *another* problem - how did Xena know which direction it was heading anyway? Can't tell from inside a ship. > Neither of these errors were essential -- or even especially > important -- to the plot. They could have done these things correctly > without changing the thrust of the ep. Which was *exactly* my biggest beef with the placenames in OAAA (but I probably don't need to mention that again.... :) cr ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:30:12 EDT From: Xwpacolyte@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] "Soulmates" Revisited In a message dated 6/9/03 11:21:31 PM Central Daylight Time, IfeRae@aol.com writes: << Organizing some of my old XWP-related publications and talking (endlessly) about Tsunami made me a bit nostalgic. I decided to revisit one of those eps I don't think about much -- Ulysses (near the end of season 2). That in turn made me think about a recent question about when "soulmates" first used. I remember our talking about it as a concept, but not whether we'd heard the term actually used before the last couple of seasons. If somebody found the first reference, you can ignore the rest of this. >> Wasn't the soulmates concept first introduced on Xena in "Prometheus" when Gabrielle was telling Iolaus the story about people having 2 heads and 4 legs before Zeus separated them? XWPacolyte Cupid and Psyche... Antony and Cleopatra... Xena and Gabrielle. ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V3 #161 **************************************